appium · KazuCocoa · Aug 19, 2018 · Aug 5, 2018 · Aug 8, 2018 · Aug 13, 2018
diff --git a/appium/webdriver/imagelement.py b/appium/webdriver/imagelement.py
diff --git a/appium/webdriver/webdriver.py b/appium/webdriver/webdriver.py
@@ -21,8 +21,7 @@
 
 from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
 from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
-from selenium.common.exceptions import (TimeoutException, WebDriverException,
-                                        InvalidArgumentException, NoSuchElementException)
+from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException, InvalidArgumentException
 
 from selenium.webdriver.remote.command import Command as RemoteCommand
 
@@ -35,9 +34,6 @@
 from .errorhandler import MobileErrorHandler
 from .switch_to import MobileSwitchTo
 from .webelement import WebElement as MobileWebElement
-from .imagelement import ImageElement
-
-DEFAULT_MATCH_THRESHOLD = 0.5
 
 # From remote/webdriver.py
 _W3C_CAPABILITY_NAMES = frozenset([
@@ -207,6 +203,7 @@ def find_element(self, by=By.ID, value=None):
         :rtype: WebElement
         """
         # if self.w3c:
+
         # if by == By.ID:
         #     by = By.CSS_SELECTOR
         #     value = '[id="%s"]' % value
@@ -218,8 +215,6 @@ def find_element(self, by=By.ID, value=None):
         # elif by == By.NAME:
         #     by = By.CSS_SELECTOR
         #     value = '[name="%s"]' % value
-        if by == By.IMAGE:
-            return self.find_element_by_image(value)
 
         return self.execute(RemoteCommand.FIND_ELEMENT, {
             'using': by,
@@ -251,9 +246,6 @@ def find_elements(self, by=By.ID, value=None):
         # Return empty list if driver returns null
         # See https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/4555
 
-        if by == By.IMAGE:
-            return self.find_elements_by_image(value)
-
         return self.execute(RemoteCommand.FIND_ELEMENTS, {
             'using': by,
             'value': value})['value'] or []
@@ -370,51 +362,34 @@ def find_elements_by_android_viewtag(self, tag):
         """
         return self.find_elements(by=By.ANDROID_VIEWTAG, value=tag)
 
-    def find_element_by_image(self, png_img_path,
-                              match_threshold=DEFAULT_MATCH_THRESHOLD):
+    def find_element_by_image(self, img_path):
         """Finds a portion of a screenshot by an image.
         Uses driver.find_image_occurrence under the hood.
 
         :Args:
-        - png_img_path - a string corresponding to the path of a PNG image
-        - match_threshold - a double between 0 and 1 below which matches will
-          be rejected as element not found
+        - img_path - a string corresponding to the path of a image
 
-        :return: an ImageElement object
+        :return: an Element object
         """
-        screenshot = self.get_screenshot_as_base64()
-        with open(png_img_path, 'rb') as png_file:
-            b64_data = base64.b64encode(png_file.read()).decode('UTF-8')
-        try:
-            res = self.find_image_occurrence(screenshot, b64_data,
-                                             threshold=match_threshold)
-        except WebDriverException as e:
-            if 'Cannot find any occurrences' in str(e):
-                raise NoSuchElementException(e)
-            raise
-        rect = res['rect']
-        return ImageElement(self, rect['x'], rect['y'], rect['width'],
-                            rect['height'])
-
-    def find_elements_by_image(self, png_img_path,
-                               match_threshold=DEFAULT_MATCH_THRESHOLD):
+        with open(img_path, 'rb') as i_file:
+            b64_data = base64.b64encode(i_file.read()).decode('UTF-8')
+
+        return self.find_element(by=By.IMAGE, value=b64_data)
+
+    def find_elements_by_image(self, img_path):
         """Finds a portion of a screenshot by an image.
         Uses driver.find_image_occurrence under the hood. Note that this will
         only ever return at most one element
 
         :Args:
-        - png_img_path - a string corresponding to the path of a PNG image
-        - match_threshold - a double between 0 and 1 below which matches will
-          be rejected as element not found
+        - img_path - a string corresponding to the path of a image
 
-        :return: possibly-empty list of ImageElements
+        :return: possibly-empty list of Elements
         """
-        els = []
-        try:
-            els.append(self.find_element_by_image(png_img_path, match_threshold))
-        except NoSuchElementException:
-            pass
-        return els
+        with open(img_path, 'rb') as i_file:
+            b64_data = base64.b64encode(i_file.read()).decode('UTF-8')
+
+        return self.find_elements(by=By.IMAGE, value=b64_data)
 
     def find_element_by_accessibility_id(self, accessibility_id):
         """Finds an element by accessibility id.

diff --git a/test/functional/android/find_by_image_success.png b/test/functional/android/find_by_image_success.png
diff --git a/test/functional/android/find_by_image_tests.py b/test/functional/android/find_by_image_tests.py
@@ -21,20 +21,30 @@
 from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
 import desired_capabilities
 
+import base64
+
 
 class FindByImageTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):
         desired_caps = desired_capabilities.get_desired_capabilities('ApiDemos-debug.apk')
         self.driver = webdriver.Remote('http://localhost:4723/wd/hub', desired_caps)
 
+        # relax template matching
+        self.driver.update_settings({"fixImageFindScreenshotDims": "false",
+                                     "fixImageTemplateSize": "true",
+                                     "autoUpdateImageElementPosition": "true"})
+
     def tearDown(self):
         self.driver.quit()
 
     def test_find_based_on_image_template(self):
         image_path = desired_capabilities.PATH('find_by_image_success.png')
+        with open(image_path, 'rb') as png_file:
+            b64_data = base64.b64encode(png_file.read()).decode('UTF-8')
+
         el = WebDriverWait(self.driver, 3).until(
-            EC.presence_of_element_located((By.IMAGE, image_path))
+            EC.presence_of_element_located((By.IMAGE, b64_data))
         )
         size = el.size
         self.assertIsNotNone(size['width'])
@@ -62,9 +72,12 @@ def test_find_multiple_elements_by_image_just_returns_one(self):
 
     def test_find_throws_no_such_element(self):
         image_path = desired_capabilities.PATH('find_by_image_failure.png')
+        with open(image_path, 'rb') as png_file:
+            b64_data = base64.b64encode(png_file.read()).decode('UTF-8')
+
         with self.assertRaises(TimeoutException):
             WebDriverWait(self.driver, 3).until(
-                EC.presence_of_element_located((By.IMAGE, image_path))
+                EC.presence_of_element_located((By.IMAGE, b64_data))
             )
         with self.assertRaises(NoSuchElementException):
             self.driver.find_element_by_image(image_path)